GRE Word List
CALLUS
a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark
The meaning of the word callus is a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| ebullient | boiling |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
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| interjection | an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as |